Sure, if you consider the top upper class as the whole country. The people never saw that kind of wealth and prosperity in those days. Field workers lived in the most absolute poverty while the owners of those fields lived in luxury and traveling abroad for vacations. North of Argentina still remains one of the poorest regions in Latin America, as it was those days. Sure, we were exporting goods everywhere. Not much was being invested on improving the well being of workers everywhere. At least, not until Peron grew to power.